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To: Rokke; Cboldt

This article contains a direct quote from President Bush promising to appoint "strict constructionists":

http://polazzo.stuysu.org/can_bush_deliver_a_conservative.htm

But in the debates Al Gore made up the quote, "in the mold of Scalia . . . " out of whole cloth. Bush never said it. At least I haven't been able to find it.


41 posted on 10/12/2005 4:37:59 AM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: savedbygrace
But in the debates Al Gore made up the quote, "in the mold of Scalia . . . " out of whole cloth. Bush never said it. At least I haven't been able to find it.

I haven't been able to find it either, but the way Gore phrased it in the debates, and the absence of reaction by then-candidate Bush, leads me to believe that then-president Bush was the first (of the two) to say that.

I'm still looking for old transcripts that substantiate my belief. As I noted, if anyone has a repository to campaign speech text, my offer to review it stands.

66 posted on 10/12/2005 5:36:32 AM PDT by Cboldt
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